Service entrance-box.



No. 851,726. EA'EENEEE AEE. 31E 19m.

E. E. ADAM.

SEEVIGE ENTRANCE B0X.

APELIOATIOE FILED .TUNE 25. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFEE,

FREDERICK B. ADAM, 0F ST. LOUIS, MSSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK Al/AM ELECTRIC CGMPNY, UF S'l. LOUlS, MISSOURI, A CORPURATlQN F MISSUUR. I

SEFVC ENTRANGE-BQX.

No. 851,726. Specification of Letters Patent. so,

Application filed Juno 25,1906. Serial No. 323,277.

Patented 3.90?.

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citizen et the United Stal s residing at St. shown in the drawings, and said insulators Louis, aso' have inv d a cert:Av

Y receive the wires or cables l l which en er the and useful improvement moervice Entianceouildnw the number of insulators with which Boxes, ot which the following is a lull, clear,

H7 the plate is provided depending on the numand exact description, such as will enable ber ol" wires or cables it is desired to run into others skilled in the art ro which it apperthe buildingv at this point. tains to make and use the same, reference be- The rear wall l2 of the box is provided ing had to the accompanying drawings, witl'i openings into which conduits i5? pro- Yliorining part of this specifi ation, in. whichject, said conduits extending through L'lie Figure l is a perspective view showing a other brics of the wall oi the build as service entrance box embodying 'the features shown in Fig. 2, and being connected to the ot my invention in operative position in the rear wall ot the box by loch nuts 14; .it is wall of a building; and Fig. is a cross sec obvious, however, that porcelain tubes tional view through said box and the wall in could be used instead oi" said conduits. which it is located. A service entrance box constructed in this This invention relates to devices which are manner not only absolutely protects the employed for leading wires into buildings, bend in the wires or cables from the weather and the object of my invention is to provide but presents an ornamental appearance, and a service entrance7 box or' novel form and can be put in place with very little trouble, it appearance for protecting wires which enter being necessary to simply remove one er a building, j more of the face bricks of the wall or' 'the The device herein shown, which represents the preferred form of my invention, is so constructed that it can be set into the wall of a building by simply removing one or more of the 'face bricks of the wall, and said device is provided with an overhanging portion which leit by the removal of the bricks and then secure 1t in position by the bolts 3.

l' claim as new and desire to secure by liet-1 ters Patent is:

1.. A service ent-rance box consisting of a hollow rectangular member wh'. #h is adapted to be inserted in the .wall of a building.;` and which has its inner end closed, a hollow projecting portion which extends beyond the wall oil the building, and insulators carried by said projecting portion and by the wall which jiorins the inner end of said member; substantially as described.

2. A service entrance box consisting olf a hollow' member having its inner end closed kand being adapted to be inserted in the wall oi' a building, an overhanging portion formed integral with said member, a removable in sulator carrying plate forming the bottom oi' said overhanging portion' and a removable fastening device for retaining said plate in position; substantially as described.

3. A service entrance box consisting ot a hollow rectangular member adapted to be in sert'ed in a wall and provided with a laterally Aextending flange which engages the cuter face of the wall, a downwardly curved overhanging portion 'formed integral with said inemthey are bent to enter the building and also presents an ornamental appearance.

Referring to the drawings which represent the preferred form of my invention, l designates a hollow rectangular casting of boxshape which may be of the same size as an or-l dinary building brick. Said box is provided' with a flange 2 that engages the outer faceoli the wall of the building when said. device is in position, and fastening devices 3, preferably expansion bolts, extend through said flange into holes which are bored in the wall of the building. A downwardly curved overhanging portion 4 is arranged at the liront of the box and is Jformed integral therewith, said overhanging portion having side walls .5 and inwardly extending flange 6. A plate 7 rests on said i'lange and forms a closure or a bottom for the overhang'ing portion, and the in flange S which is connected to the flange 2 of Porcelain insulators i0 building and insert the box in the opening' Having thus described my invention, what t loer, and a removable insulator carrying plate forming the bottom of said overlmnging portion; substantially as described.

74. A service entrance box consisting of e hollow rectangular shape casting provided with a flange which is adapted to engage the .downwardly an inwardly extending frange et the lower edge vof said w21-ll, an insulator ca trrjring; plate resting on said flange and prol viilerl with a flange -Wlrioli is secured to the 1 .flange on said hollow oasting, and au insu lator projecting through the rear Wall ot Smil hollow'osting; eubstnntiIllyv as described.

In testimony whereof, hereunto a'l'l'ix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this-eighteenth' day of June 1906. 4

. FRED. B. Di-LH.

vslinosesz WELLS l). CHURCH, GEoRGn BAKEWELL. 

